{"id":8231,"date":"2006-08-17T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8231.html"},"modified":"2006-08-17T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T19:21:29","slug":"hatch-gives-up-on-dignity-says-terrorists-will-strike-if-dems-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hatch-gives-up-on-dignity-says-terrorists-will-strike-if-dems-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatch gives up on dignity, says terrorists will strike if Dems win"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I could say this is surprising, but Orrin Hatch’s record belies exactly these kinds of ugly smears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. Orrin Hatch, who continuously decries the bitter partisanship in Washington, implied this week that Democratic success in November’s election could result in terrorist attacks on America.<\/p>\n

Hatch was quoted in Tuesday’s Tooele Transcript Bulletin as saying Middle East terrorists are “waiting for the Democrats here to take control, let things cool off and then strike again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a subsequent “clarification,” Hatch added that those who want to withdraw troops from Iraq are terrorist “appeasers.”<\/p>\n

Hatch’s name doesn’t come as often as it should when compiling a list of the Senate’s most offensive fear-mongers, but in just the last couple of years, it’s hard to match the Utah senator’s record of shameless demagoguery.
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\nIt was Hatch, for example, who said opponents of Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination were anti-Italian<\/a>. Similarly, he said opponents of Bill Pryor’s judicial nomination were anti-Catholic<\/a> (including the Catholics who were critical of Pryor).<\/p>\n

With regards to national security, in 2004, Hatch said terrorists would “throw everything they can between now and the election to try and elect Kerry.”<\/p>\n

And, in my personal favorite, Hatch said “no one with brains<\/a>” denies that Saddam Hussein was supporting Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

Considering how frequently Hatch laments the “partisan atmosphere” in Washington, the man has unfortunately become an embarrassment to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish I could say this is surprising, but Orrin Hatch’s record belies exactly these kinds of ugly smears. Sen. Orrin Hatch, who continuously decries the bitter partisanship in Washington, implied this week that Democratic success in November’s election could result in terrorist attacks on America. Hatch was quoted in Tuesday’s Tooele Transcript Bulletin as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}